I'm talking about the surgery not taking hormones and ya, turns out people with extreme mental disorders are prone to suicide.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2015/06/07/sex-changes-fixed-nothing-says-regretful-transgender
http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043071/
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First link is one person's personal journey and their opinion, second link I can't read without subscribing, 3rd link I believe is the one I was talking about above, the debunked myth (I remember it being out of Sweden) but on my phone and no wifi I can't really find that link about it for you. If this thread is still up when I get back to civilization Monday, I'll send it over along with some better links from (gasp) professionals who specialize in helping trans people. In the meantime, I personally know a few dozen trans people, including myself, who have lived much more happily after undergoing surgery.
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Huh that's weird. The second link is a legit medical journal, I went right to it from Google but it asks for a subscription from the link. Anyway, I don't really care enough either way for this to get technical. I must've read the stat about 2 years ago when I was studying psychology in college, it was from a scholarly source but there's no way I could remember exactly what